Colours which surround you are not only those which are associated with beautiful interiors and colourful furniture. Colours which surround us have a direct influence on how we perceive the space around us. Properly selected colours can expand and reduce the space optically, lower the ceiling, make the room longer or shorter etc.
At present the options of colour selection are incredible – not only can we choose from colours but also from shades, having a wide range of pastel palette, light or strong, intense colours. Knowing the rules how to create the space by using different colours we can very easily influence our premises. Below we are presenting a few basic principles of how to create the space by using different colours.
First and one of the most important division of colours is a division to ‘warm’ and ‘cold’ colours. This is exactly how we feel and perceive the colour when we enter the painted room:
- warm colours are as follows: yellow, pink, brown, beige, violet with majority of red (pink or heather). Cold colours are as follows: blue, light blue, violet with majority of blue (lily),green and celadon.
- Warm colours are friendly, joyful, sunny whereas cold ones, despite the fact that they are perceived as cold, are more subtle, elegant, stylish and sophisticated. Therefore, bathrooms where cold tiles or stone can be found, hardly ever are painted by cold colours.
Second very important division of colours refers to their intensity. Strong colours, are saturated differently than those of light saturation, light means pastel. The whole room painted by a strong and intense colour seems to be smaller than the very same room painted by the same colours but using pastel ones.
Colours with intense saturation seem to be close to us, they dominate over the rest of the room. Knowing this rule, you can very easily create the space. In order to lower optically the too high ceiling, you can paint it just by using a darker colour but leave the walls with significantly lighter shades…
And to expand or reduce too tight or wide room, you should paint some walls with dark colours.
This characteristic of the intense colour – seems to be close to us and dominates over the rest of the room – it’s very often used when arranging the interiors. One wall, an element of architecture or any other element: alcove or its jutted part, is painted by an intense colour. This technique makes the interior look modern and elegant and first of all influence effectively the space.
